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From: "Henri Yandell (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-90) What are the licensing implications
 for statistical information drawn from non-ASL2-licensed data, e.g. word
 frequency lists from Wikipedia dumps?
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Henri Yandell commented on LEGAL-90:
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Is this still require Steve?

I think you answered it yourself, though it's a bit circular:

Loose language:  "Can I generate a model from a non-category-A licensed work?"  "Yes, as long as the model is not a derivative of the work". 

Whether it's a derivative will probably depend on both the license, but more importantly on what of the original work ends up in the model. 

> What are the licensing implications for statistical information drawn from non-ASL2-licensed data, e.g. word frequency lists from Wikipedia dumps?
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>
>                 Key: LEGAL-90
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-90
>             Project: Legal Discuss
>          Issue Type: Question
>            Reporter: Steve Rowe
>
> I have generated word frequency lists from full Wikipedia dumps in several languages.  For the purposes of inclusion in ASL2-licensed products, do I need to care about the license(s) covering the original text?
> My interpretation (IANAL) of the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode], under which [Wikipedia text is licensed|http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use], is that the license applies only to the Covered Works, Adaptations, and Collections, and that a word frequency list qualifies as none of these: Adaptations are "recognizably derived from the original"; and Collections "the Work is included in its entirety in unmodified form along with one or more other contributions".
> My interpretation of the answer to the resolved question ["Can Apache projects include Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike works?"|http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#cc-sa] is that even if the CC-SA license applies to my word frequency lists, I can still include them in an ASL2-licensed product, as long as attribution is provided.
> I'm also interested in the more general question, as posed in the issue summary: do the licenses covering arbitrary data, text or otherwise, have any bearing on stastical products created over the data?


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